High-pressure speed of sound in pure CO2 and in CO2 with SO2 as an impurity using methanol as a doping agent

Abstract

Reliable speed of sound, c, values in CO2- rich mixtures and pure CO2 are required for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology but are difficult to determine, particularly at relatively high frequencies. We tested the suitability of methanol as doping agent to obtain accurate c values in CCS systems at 5MHz. We measured c in seven CO2-rich, CO2 +methanol mixtures between 263.15 and 323.15K and up to 196.30MPa, and we extrapolated the values to obtain c in pure CO2. Additionally, we measured c from 263.15 to 373.19K and up to 190.10MPa in two CO2-rich, CO2+SO2 mixtures with the same SO2 composition, which is of interest for CCS, with one mixture doped with methanol. We compared our results for pure CO2 with the literature and the Span and Wagner equation of state (EoS). We validated the PC-SAFT EoS and the modeling with the REFPROP 9 software for the mixtures by comparing the predicted values with our experimental data under the studied conditions. We conclude that methanol is a suitable doping agent to measure c in pure CO2 and CO2-rich mixtures. For the CO2 +SO2 mixtures, the effect of methanol on the experimental values is small and negligible for modeling.